Ferguson and 6' 10" forward Billy Preston transferred to API after Prime Prep closed, linking them to two questionable schools. "I was shocked," says coach Steve Smith of Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va. "If you are going to send kids to one place, [API] would not be the place." (Preston will play at Oak Hill next season, his fifth high school in four years.)
In September 2015, Trevon Duval, the top point guard in the class of 2017, transferred to API from St. Benedict's in Newark, a traditional national power that has produced NBA players J.R. Smith and Tyler Ennis. Duval's father, Trevor, says that his son's courses in 2015–16 were taken through the University of Nebraska High School, an accredited, university-based online school. St. Benedict's headmaster, Fr. Edwin Leahy, said Duval's transfer is "disgusting, but if you want to live in that world, you have to tolerate some of it." (Trevor says his son left St. Benedict's because his grades slipped: "Academics are very important to this family.")
Duval is still deciding whether to transfer elsewhere for his senior year. "It is a concern," Trevor says of the NCAA ruling on API. "I have to look out for his brand."
I guess Trevon Duval is the kind of "kid" that K has absolutely no problem recruiting now. Win at all costs. A lot of the analysts at one time were saying Duval would never play in college because of this , but a lot of these kids are getting "waivers" (what ever the F that means) that allow them to play. I guess we know now why UNC couldn't recruit Preston and Duval. "Academics are very important to his family" and "I have to look out for his brand"....LMFAO Academics are just important only to keep the "brand" on track. K couldn't have said it any better. Everything preceding this last paragraph came from a leading sports magazine article.
